Refurbishing school libraries to capitalise on the information age will be on the agenda at the third annual University of Queensland Library (UQL) ) Cyberschool seminar in Brisbane on August 12.
Principals, deputy principals, curriculum leaders and teacher librarians will converge on The Women’s College, St Lucia campus from 8.30-3.30pm on Friday, August 12 for Schools, scholars and cybraries: technology and spaces for learning.
Discussions will focus on cost-effective ways to restructure spaces such as libraries to meet students needs in an era when electronic communications – and their relevance – are developing rapidly.
Speakers include Andrew Bennett and Belinda Weaver of UQ Library; Dr Gerard Goggin of the University’s Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies; Lee-Anne Perry, Principal of All Hallows School in Brisbane; Jenny Lewis of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders; Hamilton Wilson, Managing Director of Wilson Architects; and Raylee Elliott Burns of the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology.
Topics range from the latest learning technologies to leadership and the adaptive reuse of spaces.
UQL Cyberschool, founded in 1998, is open to all secondary schools in Queensland. It is unique in Australia as a free educational community outreach program for students, teachers, principals, teacher librarians and parents.
Wide recognition includes awards from the Australian Library and Information Association, and from the International Association of School Librarianship.
One hundred and eighty (44 percent) of Queensland’s 412 secondary schools are members – and six New South Wales and three Victorian secondary schools have joined on request. This makes a total of 189 schools and 158,000 students in locations as widespread as Cairns, Mt Isa, Charleville and Melbourne.
Member benefits include access to the full text of thousands of electronic journals and hundreds of international and Australian newspapers. Cyberschool also offers training in the use of tertiary-level library resources, and guided access to UQL’s enormous research collection.
For more information, contact Deborah Turnbull, Manager, Information Skills and Community Outreach, UQ Cybrary (telephone 07 3365 6344, email d.turnbull@library.uq.edu.au).
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